Grant recipients support reading, studying, or writing literature and serve high school and college students, early career writers, seniors, and adult readers.
Since 2009 we have granted more than $600,000.
Grantees
Altadena Library
Poets Laureate workshops and readings featuring local authors and artists playing an important role in promoting poetry in Altadena. The grant also supported indie author events and a comic writing workshop for adults.
Pasadena City College
Writer-in-Residence and Visiting Writers programs aim to enrich the cultural environment of the College and the larger community by bringing local writers to the campus to interact with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
Our grant also supports the Creative Writing Academy for college and high school students.
Pasadena Senior Center
The Masters Series - an adult education program designed to increase understanding of national and international issues, the arts, other cultures, the community, and the individual. These courses provide wonderful opportunities for learning and discussion.
Pasadena Public Library One City One Story
One City, One Story (OCOS) developed to broaden and deepen an appreciation of reading and literature by compelling friends, families, and neighbors to share their experiences while reading the same book.
OCOS engages the community in dialogue and brings the Pasadena community together by promoting tolerance and understanding about differing points of view.
PEN America
You Are a Writer – a career and craft workshop series. This series is an extension of the Emerging Voices Fellowship, which provides mentorship for early-career writers from traditionally underrepresented communities in the publishing community.
WriteGirl
Core Mentoring Program – creative writing and mentoring that pairs teen girls with professional women for one-on-one mentoring, workshops, public readings, and college application assistance. Participants include 375 underserved Los Angeles-area teens and young adults who are program alumni.
Partners
Light Bringer Project
The Light Bringer Project is a nonprofit, Pasadena-based arts organization that provides arts and educational programs to underserved youth in the greater Pasadena and Los Angeles area.
LitFest Pasadena
LitFest Pasadena brings acclaimed authors and new voices together to engage in a variety of powerful and inspiring literary and social conversations.
Locavore Lit LA
Locavore Lit LA is an online literary journal, curriculum resource and classroom presenter designed to spark a love of reading and writing among underserved public school students of Los Angeles.
Red Hen Press
The mission of Red Hen Press is to publish works of literary excellence, to foster diversity, and to promote literacy in our local schools.
Pasadena Village
Pasadena Village is a community of older adults from the greater Pasadena area who have joined together to help each other as we navigate the challenges and opportunities of aging.
